PREMIUMSailing fans around the world have been marvelling the blistering performance of the Vendee Globe leading pair, Armel Le Cléac'h, Alex Thomson, whose state of the art foiling IMOCA 60s have been shattering race record since they left Les Sables D’Olonnes almost five weeks ago. The pace of the French and British skippers has been relentless and has earned them a lead of over a thousand nautical miles on the chasing pack. Both averaged more than 20 knots through the Atlantic between the start and the Cape of Good Hope and there has been no let up since. A large part of these remarkable performances can be attributed to the boats’ new foil systems, but spare a though also for the hardworking autopilot systems that enable the skippers to keep the hammer down day and night – even while they snatch a fitful 40 winks.

PREMIUMAside from his day job as a private equity entrepreneur in New York, Irishman Marcus Spillane occupies a unique position in sailing’s Olympic classes structure. 42-year-old Spillane and his Canadian business partner, Ben Remocker, control the three fastest Olympic classes – the 49er, 49erfx and the Nacra 17 – and the duo are leading from the front in the campaign to promote sailing to a larger global audience of sports fans. We caught up with Spillane at the World Sailing Conference in Barcelona shortly where he and Remocker had just had their proposal for a new format for the medal race day at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games approved by the World Sailing Executive.

As they approach the end of their first month at sea the leading two skippers in the Vendee Globe - Alex Thomson and Armel Le Cléac’h are showing no let up in the blistering pace they have maintained since the start. But the pair may pursue very different strategies as this fascinating battle unfolds.

The 2016 Melges 24 World Championship taking place this week in Miami, Florida marks a return to the big league in the United States for the class that launched the asymmetric sportsboat revolution back in 1993. Sail Racing Magazine editor Justin Chisholm previews the 74-boat championship on the eve of racing getting underway.

PREMIUM Part Two of a two-stage interview with French ocean racer Thomas Coville who is at the forefront of the new Ultim movement that could see a fleet seven singlehanded foiling 100-foot multihulls racing around the world non-stop in 2019.

If I asked you to close your eyes and picture yourself at a blue sky, warm water regatta this winter, what do you conjure up? Key West Race Week? Antigua Sailing Week? Maybe the St. Thomas International Regatta? What would you be racing? A Melges 24 or 32? A TP52 or Maxi 70? Those are the type of fantasy scenarios I come up with too. But how about something different? Something a tad more challenging and out of the ordinary? Like a 186-mile race through the islands of the Zanzibar Archipelago on a 16-foot sailing outrigger-canoe dug out of a mango tree?

He has been Italy’s most famous ocean going yachtsman for more than two decades but Giovanni Soldini remains very much at the cutting edge of yacht racing technology. Soldini's unorthodox style and heroic ocean racing exploits made him a household name in his home country and now the 50-year old skipper is flying the flag for Italy again with a major breakthrough in the largely uncharted waters of offshore foiling.

PREMIUMPart One of a two-stage interview with French ocean racer Thomas Coville who is at the forefront of the new Ultim movement that could see a fleet seven singlehanded foiling 100-foot multihulls racing around the world non-stop in 2019.

PREMIUMAs a four-time competitor, New Zealander Richard Mason knows a thing or two about the Volvo Ocean Race. Last edition he stayed on land to run the shore side of the all-women Team SCA campaign and now is helping to shape the future direction of the race itself in the role of Operations Director at the race HQ in Alicante, Spain.

Earlier this year Vendée Globe front-runner Sébastien Josse gave Sail Racing Magazine editor Justin Chisholm an exclusive look around his state of the art Gitana Sailing Team IMOCA 60 and shared some insight into what his life on board would be like in the 2016-17 Vendee Globe.

PREMIUMSailing fans around the world have been marvelling the blistering performance of the Vendee Globe leading pair, Armel Le Cléac'h, Alex Thomson, whose state of the art foiling IMOCA 60s have been shattering race record since they left Les Sables D’Olonnes almost five weeks ago. The pace of the French and British skippers has been relentless and has earned them a lead of over a thousand nautical miles on the chasing pack. Both averaged more than 20 knots through the Atlantic between the start and the Cape of Good Hope and there has been no let up since. A large part of these remarkable performances can be attributed to the boats’ new foil systems, but spare a though also for the hardworking autopilot systems that enable the skippers to keep the hammer down day and night – even while they snatch a fitful 40 winks.

PREMIUMAside from his day job as a private equity entrepreneur in New York, Irishman Marcus Spillane occupies a unique position in sailing’s Olympic classes structure. 42-year-old Spillane and his Canadian business partner, Ben Remocker, control the three fastest Olympic classes – the 49er, 49erfx and the Nacra 17 – and the duo are leading from the front in the campaign to promote sailing to a larger global audience of sports fans. We caught up with Spillane at the World Sailing Conference in Barcelona shortly where he and Remocker had just had their proposal for a new format for the medal race day at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games approved by the World Sailing Executive.

As they approach the end of their first month at sea the leading two skippers in the Vendee Globe - Alex Thomson and Armel Le Cléac’h are showing no let up in the blistering pace they have maintained since the start. But the pair may pursue very different strategies as this fascinating battle unfolds.

The 2016 Melges 24 World Championship taking place this week in Miami, Florida marks a return to the big league in the United States for the class that launched the asymmetric sportsboat revolution back in 1993. Sail Racing Magazine editor Justin Chisholm previews the 74-boat championship on the eve of racing getting underway.

PREMIUM Part Two of a two-stage interview with French ocean racer Thomas Coville who is at the forefront of the new Ultim movement that could see a fleet seven singlehanded foiling 100-foot multihulls racing around the world non-stop in 2019.

If I asked you to close your eyes and picture yourself at a blue sky, warm water regatta this winter, what do you conjure up? Key West Race Week? Antigua Sailing Week? Maybe the St. Thomas International Regatta? What would you be racing? A Melges 24 or 32? A TP52 or Maxi 70? Those are the type of fantasy scenarios I come up with too. But how about something different? Something a tad more challenging and out of the ordinary? Like a 186-mile race through the islands of the Zanzibar Archipelago on a 16-foot sailing outrigger-canoe dug out of a mango tree?

He has been Italy’s most famous ocean going yachtsman for more than two decades but Giovanni Soldini remains very much at the cutting edge of yacht racing technology. Soldini's unorthodox style and heroic ocean racing exploits made him a household name in his home country and now the 50-year old skipper is flying the flag for Italy again with a major breakthrough in the largely uncharted waters of offshore foiling.

PREMIUMPart One of a two-stage interview with French ocean racer Thomas Coville who is at the forefront of the new Ultim movement that could see a fleet seven singlehanded foiling 100-foot multihulls racing around the world non-stop in 2019.

PREMIUMAs a four-time competitor, New Zealander Richard Mason knows a thing or two about the Volvo Ocean Race. Last edition he stayed on land to run the shore side of the all-women Team SCA campaign and now is helping to shape the future direction of the race itself in the role of Operations Director at the race HQ in Alicante, Spain.

Earlier this year Vendée Globe front-runner Sébastien Josse gave Sail Racing Magazine editor Justin Chisholm an exclusive look around his state of the art Gitana Sailing Team IMOCA 60 and shared some insight into what his life on board would be like in the 2016-17 Vendee Globe.

PREMIUMIf Sebastien Rogues was a start-up business entrepreneur rather than a professional yacht racer, we would describe his abrupt switch two years ago from a successful solo ocean racing to skippering a five-man crew on an inshore foiling catamaran, as a strategic ‘pivot’. We caught up with the young French skipper this summer to find out his short and long term plans.

As the Volvo Ocean Race’s chief digital officer Jordi Neves is the man ultimately responsible for communicating the story of the 2017-18 edition to the race’s legions of passionate sailing fans. With the start of the next race less than a year away Neves shares his thoughts exclusively with Sail Racing Magazine on what he and his team are working on.

PREMIUMOf all the wild and wonderful new foiling designs on show this summer during the 2016 edition of The Foiling Week on Italy’s Lake Garda, a sexy prototype 15-foot t-foiler called the Orca stood head and shoulders above the rest.

PREMIUMPart Two of our interview with new Volvo Ocean Race CEO Mark Turner talking exclusively to Sail Racing Magazine about the challenges he has faced after taking charge of one of sailboat racing’s hallowed brands.

PREMIUMPart one of a two part interview with new Volvo Ocean Race CEO Mark Turner talking exclusively to Sail Racing Magazine about the challenges he has faced after taking charge of one of sailboat racing’s hallowed brands.

Sail Racing Magazine editor Justin Chisholm sets the scene for this weekend's Vendee Globe start where huge crowds of spectators will assemble in Les Sables-d'Olonne to cheer off 29 of sailing's superhero skippers as they set out alone and unaided to race around the world non-stop.

PREMIUMHap Fauth fell in love with sailboat racing at the tender age of seven on the waters of Great South Bay off Long Island. Now aged 71 and the head of a successful business empire, Fauth remains as captivated by the sport as he ever was. These days however he races on considerably bigger boats than the diminutive Beetle Cats and Penguins he cut his teeth on at the Babylon Yacht Club. This September he and his 19-strong crew aboard the Maxi 72 Bella Mente pulled off their second consecutive world championship victory in Porto Cervo, Italy.

The positive discrimination strategy rule change implemented by Volvo Ocean Race this month has gained some traction outside of the sailing media. In the UK, Sky Sport's Sportswomen show featured a discussion with Team SCA watch leader Dee Caffari and Tracy Edwards, skipper of Maiden - the first ever all woman Whitbread Race entry. The story was also picked up by Tim Gow, Sports News Editor at the Daily Express newspaper in the United Kingdom who wrote a piece for the paper's website after interviewing Caffari.

PREMIUMBritish sailor Susie Goodall is currently the only female entrant in the revamped Golden Globe Race. Writing exclusively in the October - November issue of Sail Racing Magazine Susie updates us on how her preparations to make it to the start of the retro around-the-world-race in the summer of 2018 are progressing.

The latest issue of Sail Racing Magazine is out now packed with exclusive stories and interviews from around the world of sailboat racing. Get your copy on your iPhone or iPad by downloading the free Sail Racing Magazine app from the Apple App Store now.

We speak to veteran US Olympic campaigner Brad Funk about his first sortie into the Extreme Sailing Series with the newly formed Vega Racing at the Madeira regatta and find out his plans for a full-bore all-American ESS campaign for next season.

Britain’s most prominent offshore sailor, Alex Thomson is hoping to emulate fellow Englishman Bradley Wiggins’ landmark victory in the Tour de France when he takes on a potent French contingent in the 2016-17 Vendée Globe this November.

Russell Hurst, founder and owner of Ropes Direct, outlines the factors that contributed to the British Olympic medallists’ success and makes the case for why he feels the ropes are the most important part of the vessel on a racing craft.

The August edition of the Sail Racing Magazine Show comes from The Foiling Week on Lake Garda in Italy. SRM editor Justin Chisholm chats to TFW creator Luca Rizzoti, French America's Cup skipper, Franck Cammas, and British foiling Moth expert, Rob Greenhalgh. Justin also experiences foiling for the first time when joins Sebastien Rogues Engie crew for a training session aboard their high performance GC32 catamaran.

PREMIUMSailing fans around the world have been marvelling the blistering performance of the Vendee Globe leading pair, Armel Le Cléac'h, Alex Thomson, whose state of the art foiling IMOCA 60s have been shattering race record since they left Les Sables D’Olonnes almost five weeks ago. The pace of the French and British skippers has been relentless and has earned them a lead of over a thousand nautical miles on the chasing pack. Both averaged more than 20 knots through the Atlantic between the start and the Cape of Good Hope and there has been no let up since. A large part of these remarkable performances can be attributed to the boats’ new foil systems, but spare a though also for the hardworking autopilot systems that enable the skippers to keep the hammer down day and night – even while they snatch a fitful 40 winks.

PREMIUMAside from his day job as a private equity entrepreneur in New York, Irishman Marcus Spillane occupies a unique position in sailing’s Olympic classes structure. 42-year-old Spillane and his Canadian business partner, Ben Remocker, control the three fastest Olympic classes – the 49er, 49erfx and the Nacra 17 – and the duo are leading from the front in the campaign to promote sailing to a larger global audience of sports fans. We caught up with Spillane at the World Sailing Conference in Barcelona shortly where he and Remocker had just had their proposal for a new format for the medal race day at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games approved by the World Sailing Executive.

As they approach the end of their first month at sea the leading two skippers in the Vendee Globe - Alex Thomson and Armel Le Cléac’h are showing no let up in the blistering pace they have maintained since the start. But the pair may pursue very different strategies as this fascinating battle unfolds.

The 2016 Melges 24 World Championship taking place this week in Miami, Florida marks a return to the big league in the United States for the class that launched the asymmetric sportsboat revolution back in 1993. Sail Racing Magazine editor Justin Chisholm previews the 74-boat championship on the eve of racing getting underway.

PREMIUM Part Two of a two-stage interview with French ocean racer Thomas Coville who is at the forefront of the new Ultim movement that could see a fleet seven singlehanded foiling 100-foot multihulls racing around the world non-stop in 2019.

If I asked you to close your eyes and picture yourself at a blue sky, warm water regatta this winter, what do you conjure up? Key West Race Week? Antigua Sailing Week? Maybe the St. Thomas International Regatta? What would you be racing? A Melges 24 or 32? A TP52 or Maxi 70? Those are the type of fantasy scenarios I come up with too. But how about something different? Something a tad more challenging and out of the ordinary? Like a 186-mile race through the islands of the Zanzibar Archipelago on a 16-foot sailing outrigger-canoe dug out of a mango tree?

He has been Italy’s most famous ocean going yachtsman for more than two decades but Giovanni Soldini remains very much at the cutting edge of yacht racing technology. Soldini's unorthodox style and heroic ocean racing exploits made him a household name in his home country and now the 50-year old skipper is flying the flag for Italy again with a major breakthrough in the largely uncharted waters of offshore foiling.

PREMIUMPart One of a two-stage interview with French ocean racer Thomas Coville who is at the forefront of the new Ultim movement that could see a fleet seven singlehanded foiling 100-foot multihulls racing around the world non-stop in 2019.

PREMIUMAs a four-time competitor, New Zealander Richard Mason knows a thing or two about the Volvo Ocean Race. Last edition he stayed on land to run the shore side of the all-women Team SCA campaign and now is helping to shape the future direction of the race itself in the role of Operations Director at the race HQ in Alicante, Spain.

Earlier this year Vendée Globe front-runner Sébastien Josse gave Sail Racing Magazine editor Justin Chisholm an exclusive look around his state of the art Gitana Sailing Team IMOCA 60 and shared some insight into what his life on board would be like in the 2016-17 Vendee Globe.

PREMIUMIf Sebastien Rogues was a start-up business entrepreneur rather than a professional yacht racer, we would describe his abrupt switch two years ago from a successful solo ocean racing to skippering a five-man crew on an inshore foiling catamaran, as a strategic ‘pivot’. We caught up with the young French skipper this summer to find out his short and long term plans.

As the Volvo Ocean Race’s chief digital officer Jordi Neves is the man ultimately responsible for communicating the story of the 2017-18 edition to the race’s legions of passionate sailing fans. With the start of the next race less than a year away Neves shares his thoughts exclusively with Sail Racing Magazine on what he and his team are working on.

PREMIUMOf all the wild and wonderful new foiling designs on show this summer during the 2016 edition of The Foiling Week on Italy’s Lake Garda, a sexy prototype 15-foot t-foiler called the Orca stood head and shoulders above the rest.

PREMIUMPart Two of our interview with new Volvo Ocean Race CEO Mark Turner talking exclusively to Sail Racing Magazine about the challenges he has faced after taking charge of one of sailboat racing’s hallowed brands.

PREMIUMPart one of a two part interview with new Volvo Ocean Race CEO Mark Turner talking exclusively to Sail Racing Magazine about the challenges he has faced after taking charge of one of sailboat racing’s hallowed brands.

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